Speaker
Robert Mina
(University of Virginia)
Description
The NOνA collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z, total
absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI neutrino beam. This
detector, with its excellent granularity and energy resolution, and relatively low-energy neutrino
thresholds was designed to observe electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam, but
it also has unique capabilities suitable for more exotic efforts. In fact, if an efficient upwardgoing
muon trigger with sufficient cosmic ray background rejection can be demonstrated, NOνA
will be capable of a competitive indirect dark matter search for low-mass WIMPs. The cosmic
ray muon rate at the NOνA far detector is about 100 kHz and provides the primary challenge
for triggering and optimizing such a search analysis. The status of the NOνA upward-going
muon trigger is presented.
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Primary author
Robert Mina
(University of Virginia)
Co-authors
Andrew Norman
(Fermilab)
Iuri Oksuzian
(UVa)
Martin Frank
(U)
Robert Group
(University of Virginia)
